My mom’s health continues to decline. My father is extremely worried, to the point that he spends many nighttime hours on his knees in prayer. I ask for prayer for him, specifically. That God would calm his fears and give him strength for whatever is to come. He is 83 and has loved her since he was nineteen. My father’s name is Steve. Thank you.
I can understand his situation, Ann.
At that point in life, all they have is each other. All the kids care, but they have their own lives that keep them busy.
Janice, thank you for your prayer on yesterday’s thread – as usual you wrote out exactly what was on my heart regarding Andrea and Bobby, but just couldn’t put into words. I so appreciate you.
My cousin, Andrea, was hit by a car last night and I haven’t heard how she is yet this morning. Please pray for her and new new husband of not even 3 weeks.
Thank You for love, especially the love here on earth of spouses that are so bonded that nothing separates them for eternity. Thank You for listening to prayers that ease anxious feelings. You gave us Your ear as the best medication for what troubles us. Thank You for giving the long-lived couples so many daily opportunities to express their love to each other.
I pray this morning for Annms’ s parents to realize in full the comfort and peace and rest You gave to all through Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross. It is sufficient to cover all our needs here on earth, during transition times, during lonely times, during stressful times, during life and death times, and for all eternity. I praise You for the ways You help all of us through terrible pains. Please help Steve through this as he witnesses the love of his life suffering. Please help all the family. Again, please give peace that passes understanding. In Jesus’ name, Amen
Please continue to pray for BG. She lied to me about going to work and went to the boyfriend’s house. I have found out who his family is and I was able to get his mother’s cell phone number. I called her, explained that BG had lied to me about work, was still on restriction, and that I was headed toward where they lived. She gave me her address. When I got there BG and the boy were walking out to meet me. I told her to head to her dad’s house we would deal with her together. I gave her every opportunity to come clean with me yesterday or at least make another decision. When she left for “work” I even asked her if I popped in to her store would she be there. She later admitted that she knew she was going to get caught but she did it anyway. She is currently lying to me about where her iPod is–they can send text messages on those. Her dad had told her last night that he won it in a contest so it was his and to give it to me when she got home.
I had given her my debit card last Thursday to get a snack. She had to work from 5pm until 2am. I asked for it back on Sunday but forgot to follow through in getting it. I cautioned her about spending any more money out of the account. I need to make a deposit. I checked it last night. She has overdrawn it buying food and Starbucks. It is back in my possession now.
I guess it is going to take a figurative 2×4 to the back of her head to get her attention. Even last night something was said about a music festival and that she wanted to go but didn’t have the money. I told her even if she had the money she couldn’t go. She spouted off that she was 18—Oh really? You want to tell me you are 18 and can do anything you want after tonight and the trouble you are already in????? Really????
Kim, It may be time to give this 18-year-old your blessings and show her to the door. An attempt at living on her own and supporting herself would be a real awakening. It sounds unloving, but in reality, your enabling of this behavior isn’t love.
“When I’m 18….” Oh my word how I recall our oldest using those words time and time again in attempts to manipulate our decisions! There was a time when he was saving up his oranges from his lunches, telling his sister he was saving up his food because he was leaving on foot to travel through Kansas on his way to Florida! I did start placing “boys boot camps, boys ranches” pamphlets around the house…in the bathroom….in hopes of getting his attention. How I recall the look on his face when again he spouted that he was leaving when he was 18 and his Dad look straight in the eye and sighed the words….” oh quit getting my hopes up son!” He left when he was 19…went to the Coast Guard…completed 4 years there then went on to University and got his degree, married became a Dad….he’s doing ok
It is a lot easier to say than it is to do. I talked to G this morning. I have told her and told her. She keeps lying. I told her last night she was acting like white trash (that is the worst a Southerner can be, because at least people of color have an excuse of being discriminated against) and she wasn’t raised that way.
Then I think of my mother. I see so many similarities.
Please pray for Art. On top of all else, he is having GI tract problems and more shortness of breath. He had hoped to go into the office today. Thank you.
Sometimes one hears a lot of, “When I turn 18 I am leaving!” Then when they turn 18 they reconsider. Suddenly things might not seem so bad.
Hang in there, Kim. At the very least you will know you did everything in your power. What matters is what you have done ‘unto the Lord.’ You are not responsible for results. BG will ultimately make her own way. We will keep praying.
Praying for all the above, and other situations mentioned here recently.
Please pray for wisdom for 2nd Arrow. She is still sick, and was planning on driving back to her place today (3 hours away) because of being scheduled to work at 5:00 pm with her part-time job. She has called in sick, so she doesn’t need to travel today.
However, traveling today might be better than tomorrow because she’s scheduled to work at her full-time (overnight) job starting tomorrow night, and she would need to sleep during the day tomorrow. Her shift is 6:00 pm to 7:30 am, so traveling three hours tomorrow would take a significant chunk out of her sleep time. She needs all the rest she can get.
However, the roads are snow-covered today, so that would be another issue with traveling. And it would be better if she could make the trip in the daylight, rather than at night.
Pray for wisdom and safety and attentiveness whenever she makes the trip back. Thank you.
Kim, it is a lot easier to say than to do. We all know and agree on that. But words do not make any impact on her actions. You need to give her tough love. That would mean, she does not have a car, she does not have any device, she does not have money given to her, she does do at least an hour of chores around the house each day in addition to doing well on her schoolwork, and you stop giving her holes to climb through. She could stay home and pay rent, maybe four hundred a month. Then she could buy herself a car, fill her own tank, pay her own insurance, pay her own repairs, buy her own device, pay her own expenses. You could provide her with a place to sleep and food. That is what a landlord does. You know this. You do not want her at twenty five, leaving her three children for you to babysit while she is off with her boyfriend in your car with the money you gave them to spend on a hotel room and food and drugs.
Think about it. Up until about fifty years ago, children were expected to contribute, not just take from the family. The child was provided with food, clothing, shelter, direction on how to behave, an education to whatever level. The child left home at whatever age, able to fix a good meal, work, do home care, a wide range of things. Now, an average American eighteen year old goes to college on their parent’s dime, probably with an allowance so they can party for five years and then move home. That is not what you want.
She is making poor choices. She knows better. She is caught in a trap and you cannot help her by feeding her in the trap. She needs to participate in her freeing. Either she follows your rules and cause you no grief at all, or she needs to do the right thing and go be responsible.
In a month, we will be in your same boat with a sweet young woman who stomps her foot and claims she is independent. We will let her. If she chooses to continue to live with oldest daughter, she will continue to pay rent and do chores. She will buy her own car and not use ours and complain about it all of the time.
Right now, we have an eighteen year old who chose public school. He is in tenth grade and getting F’s. The only way he can get an F is to not turn in anything. They are trying to work with him and if he just turns in a paper with his name on it and some indication he knew there was an assignment, he won’t get an F. Teachers stay after school to help him. He stays and does a little. But we gave him the first quarter and he was doing okay. He has, apparently gotten bored, so next quarter will be the end for him. Either he will be working full time and paying rent or he will be working or not working somewhere else and paying rent or not paying rent somewhere else. It is hard. He is not emotionally mature and is easily lead astray. But it is not in his best interest to remain here, getting a free ride so he can play.
Another eighteen year old also is not doing so well in school, but he is following the rules and trying in school. There is no talk of him moving on. We actually don’t think he will ever be independent so expect to direct him to a job and have him pay rent as well.
In a couple of months, if things remain on this track, you might expect to hear that one of the eighteens has moved out. We will see. It is hard. Very hard. Harder on the parents than on the child. Though it shouldn’t be.
Kim – There may be similarities, but she is not your mother. Don’t let the enemy of our souls keep you captive to that fear. You belong to Jesus, & He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Your God will fight for you & for your daughter. “Peace, be still.”
As for food, does BG realize that for many (if not most) working people can’t afford to buy their food out every day? Lee & Emily pack food to take for the day (I prepare Lee’s for him), & a thermos of coffee (for Lee) or tea (for Emily), along with water bottles. (Not the plastic kind you buy, but these are steel, & we fill them up at home.)
She will save a lot of money by making & taking her own meals or snacks.
Prayers for all. I’m actually surprised BG hasn’t found a way to move out already, but it is expensive, obviously. Good to hear the hoped-for “rest of the story” for these wayward teens from Nancyjill, michelle, etc. Perspective. But that’s hard to really have when you’re in the thick of a mess like that & don’t yet know where it will all lead, I know.
Pray for Carol, she went out to the 99-cent store yesterday after getting her check cashed and took a fall when trying to get her walker up over a curb where there was no ramp. She dislocated her shoulder and wound up at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital (again) until around midnight. They knocked her out & got her shoulder back in place, took X-rays and a CAT scan of her head, which she says came back OK.
That’s the 2nd time she’s fallen in the past couple months. I am getting worried that her health and ability to be independent is taking a step down.
And she said they discharged her without any paperwork or followup instructions, she still has no doctor in Hollywood — I think it would be good if she could go back to her other residence, even if it means rooming with the boyfriend, but she is still paying off some back rent owed at Hollywood and won’t be clear of that until February. (Somehow she went in there after the first of the month last summer and had no money so right off the bat she owed extra for those several weeks until. They are taking those back-payments out a little at a time each month.
I may try to reach the brother again, it would be easier for family to deal with these folks in making plans for her. Due to Hippa, they’re just not very receptive to me when I call (even though my name is down as her local contact). But maybe her brother would be willing to get her paid up and then see if she can be transferred back to Downey maybe at the first of the year.
I know I am feeling sad about Art, but I am also saddened to know about all the major problems so many are facing. God, please help us all in these days of trials and heartaches over loved ones.♡
My SIL flunks some of those students. He tries to help them, but will not pass anyone who does not at least DO something. It is very frustrating to him to have parents show up after the fact, who still try to get him to pass their student. He refuses to continue the farce, which is what it is. It is unhelpful and damaging to continue to allow these young people to live in a fantasy world. He does not teach math or English or any other difficult subject. There is absolutely no excuse for his students to not pass. You can lead a horse to water…
That is our biggest concern with our eighteen year old boy. Though I think he and nineteen year old daughter are trying to rekindle their romance. We told them they could do that when they were eighteen as they are not bio sibs. Complicated.
We are trying to work very closely with the school. Reminding them that the boys need the grades that reflect their work or lack thereof, they should not get fudged grades so they can participate in sports. I recently told fourteen year old that we were upping the ante on him. He will be expected to maintain something like a 3.3 in future. Right now, we said he had to have a 3.0 to play and no F’s. He lets it slide until just before the game and raises it to 3.1 so he can play. That does not actually meet what we are looking for so we will have to be more clear. Other boy is just using school as an excuse to not work. But, like I said, emotionally, he is not eighteen.
Wow! So much to pray for! I am praying for each of your needs.
Hard as it is, sometimes you just have to let your children eat pig slop. Remember that the prodigal’s father never went to bail him out. He waited for God to change his heart.
and more: Another ‘active shooter’ event unfolding northeast of LA:
What we know about the San Bernardino shooting
• San Bernardino officials are at an Active Shooter situation at the Inland Regional Center on Waterman Ave.
• A San Bernardino Police sergeant said there may have been as many as three shooters.
• Police have said 15-20 people are victims but have not reported a death toll.
• Agents from the Los Angeles bureau of the ATF have been dispatched to the scene.
• The Inland Regional Center is a health and community center for people with developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
I agree with RKessler — so much to pray for on this thread! Many wise words shared here, too.
Daughter decided not to drive back today. She did drive herself to an Urgent Care in our area. She figured she just has a virus and they wouldn’t be able to do anything, and she was right, but she got a doctor’s note saying she was too ill to work, which she can turn in to her supervisor at the place she was to work today. Then she won’t get “points” against her. (That workplace adds 3 points to an employee’s record — 10 points in three months gets you fired — for calling in sick and not providing proof, in the form of a doctor’s note. Or if they don’t want to go to a doctor, they have to drive to work and prove they’re sick and be given permission to leave.)
Fortunately, her full-time workplace (at the animal hospital) doesn’t require proof of illness, but at her part-time place, everyone pays the price for the liars/lazy ones.
Finally some information on Andrea. She had texted her husband saying she was on her way and would meet him at work. She didn’t arrive and he was frantically calling her cell which was eventually answered by a nurse at the hospital. She had been hit (either while walking or biking) and someone, thankfully, had called an ambulance.
She had surgery on her femur this morning and also has broken ribs.
So glad Andrea was not hurt worse. When I was at Georgia Southern I dated a guy who had been engaged but one evening around dusk, his fiancee got hit and killed while riding her bke. People on foot or bike are so vulnerable to being hit. It causes so much tragedy.
Kare, when I saw the word femur, I flinched a little. I hope all goes well. My father had his femur broken in a car accident, and he too had to wait overnight to be operated on. By morning, he was unconscious. The yellow marrow of the femur shaft is fat, and some had migrated into his bloodstream (it was a compound fracture) to become emboli which blocked circulation in his lungs and brain. It was a miracle that he recovered with few ill effects.
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My mom’s health continues to decline. My father is extremely worried, to the point that he spends many nighttime hours on his knees in prayer. I ask for prayer for him, specifically. That God would calm his fears and give him strength for whatever is to come. He is 83 and has loved her since he was nineteen. My father’s name is Steve. Thank you.
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I can understand his situation, Ann.
At that point in life, all they have is each other. All the kids care, but they have their own lives that keep them busy.
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Janice, thank you for your prayer on yesterday’s thread – as usual you wrote out exactly what was on my heart regarding Andrea and Bobby, but just couldn’t put into words. I so appreciate you.
My cousin, Andrea, was hit by a car last night and I haven’t heard how she is yet this morning. Please pray for her and new new husband of not even 3 weeks.
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Heavenly Father,
Thank You for love, especially the love here on earth of spouses that are so bonded that nothing separates them for eternity. Thank You for listening to prayers that ease anxious feelings. You gave us Your ear as the best medication for what troubles us. Thank You for giving the long-lived couples so many daily opportunities to express their love to each other.
I pray this morning for Annms’ s parents to realize in full the comfort and peace and rest You gave to all through Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross. It is sufficient to cover all our needs here on earth, during transition times, during lonely times, during stressful times, during life and death times, and for all eternity. I praise You for the ways You help all of us through terrible pains. Please help Steve through this as he witnesses the love of his life suffering. Please help all the family. Again, please give peace that passes understanding. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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Please continue to pray for BG. She lied to me about going to work and went to the boyfriend’s house. I have found out who his family is and I was able to get his mother’s cell phone number. I called her, explained that BG had lied to me about work, was still on restriction, and that I was headed toward where they lived. She gave me her address. When I got there BG and the boy were walking out to meet me. I told her to head to her dad’s house we would deal with her together. I gave her every opportunity to come clean with me yesterday or at least make another decision. When she left for “work” I even asked her if I popped in to her store would she be there. She later admitted that she knew she was going to get caught but she did it anyway. She is currently lying to me about where her iPod is–they can send text messages on those. Her dad had told her last night that he won it in a contest so it was his and to give it to me when she got home.
I had given her my debit card last Thursday to get a snack. She had to work from 5pm until 2am. I asked for it back on Sunday but forgot to follow through in getting it. I cautioned her about spending any more money out of the account. I need to make a deposit. I checked it last night. She has overdrawn it buying food and Starbucks. It is back in my possession now.
I guess it is going to take a figurative 2×4 to the back of her head to get her attention. Even last night something was said about a music festival and that she wanted to go but didn’t have the money. I told her even if she had the money she couldn’t go. She spouted off that she was 18—Oh really? You want to tell me you are 18 and can do anything you want after tonight and the trouble you are already in????? Really????
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Kim, It may be time to give this 18-year-old your blessings and show her to the door. An attempt at living on her own and supporting herself would be a real awakening. It sounds unloving, but in reality, your enabling of this behavior isn’t love.
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“When I’m 18….” Oh my word how I recall our oldest using those words time and time again in attempts to manipulate our decisions! There was a time when he was saving up his oranges from his lunches, telling his sister he was saving up his food because he was leaving on foot to travel through Kansas on his way to Florida! I did start placing “boys boot camps, boys ranches” pamphlets around the house…in the bathroom….in hopes of getting his attention. How I recall the look on his face when again he spouted that he was leaving when he was 18 and his Dad look straight in the eye and sighed the words….” oh quit getting my hopes up son!” He left when he was 19…went to the Coast Guard…completed 4 years there then went on to University and got his degree, married became a Dad….he’s doing ok
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Yep, she is eighteen. She can live on her own and pay her own way. Or she can live with you and follow your rules. What Linda said.
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It is a lot easier to say than it is to do. I talked to G this morning. I have told her and told her. She keeps lying. I told her last night she was acting like white trash (that is the worst a Southerner can be, because at least people of color have an excuse of being discriminated against) and she wasn’t raised that way.
Then I think of my mother. I see so many similarities.
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Please pray for Art. On top of all else, he is having GI tract problems and more shortness of breath. He had hoped to go into the office today. Thank you.
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Janice, praying with you.
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Sometimes one hears a lot of, “When I turn 18 I am leaving!” Then when they turn 18 they reconsider. Suddenly things might not seem so bad.
Hang in there, Kim. At the very least you will know you did everything in your power. What matters is what you have done ‘unto the Lord.’ You are not responsible for results. BG will ultimately make her own way. We will keep praying.
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Praying for all the above, and other situations mentioned here recently.
Please pray for wisdom for 2nd Arrow. She is still sick, and was planning on driving back to her place today (3 hours away) because of being scheduled to work at 5:00 pm with her part-time job. She has called in sick, so she doesn’t need to travel today.
However, traveling today might be better than tomorrow because she’s scheduled to work at her full-time (overnight) job starting tomorrow night, and she would need to sleep during the day tomorrow. Her shift is 6:00 pm to 7:30 am, so traveling three hours tomorrow would take a significant chunk out of her sleep time. She needs all the rest she can get.
However, the roads are snow-covered today, so that would be another issue with traveling. And it would be better if she could make the trip in the daylight, rather than at night.
Pray for wisdom and safety and attentiveness whenever she makes the trip back. Thank you.
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Kim, it is a lot easier to say than to do. We all know and agree on that. But words do not make any impact on her actions. You need to give her tough love. That would mean, she does not have a car, she does not have any device, she does not have money given to her, she does do at least an hour of chores around the house each day in addition to doing well on her schoolwork, and you stop giving her holes to climb through. She could stay home and pay rent, maybe four hundred a month. Then she could buy herself a car, fill her own tank, pay her own insurance, pay her own repairs, buy her own device, pay her own expenses. You could provide her with a place to sleep and food. That is what a landlord does. You know this. You do not want her at twenty five, leaving her three children for you to babysit while she is off with her boyfriend in your car with the money you gave them to spend on a hotel room and food and drugs.
Think about it. Up until about fifty years ago, children were expected to contribute, not just take from the family. The child was provided with food, clothing, shelter, direction on how to behave, an education to whatever level. The child left home at whatever age, able to fix a good meal, work, do home care, a wide range of things. Now, an average American eighteen year old goes to college on their parent’s dime, probably with an allowance so they can party for five years and then move home. That is not what you want.
She is making poor choices. She knows better. She is caught in a trap and you cannot help her by feeding her in the trap. She needs to participate in her freeing. Either she follows your rules and cause you no grief at all, or she needs to do the right thing and go be responsible.
In a month, we will be in your same boat with a sweet young woman who stomps her foot and claims she is independent. We will let her. If she chooses to continue to live with oldest daughter, she will continue to pay rent and do chores. She will buy her own car and not use ours and complain about it all of the time.
Right now, we have an eighteen year old who chose public school. He is in tenth grade and getting F’s. The only way he can get an F is to not turn in anything. They are trying to work with him and if he just turns in a paper with his name on it and some indication he knew there was an assignment, he won’t get an F. Teachers stay after school to help him. He stays and does a little. But we gave him the first quarter and he was doing okay. He has, apparently gotten bored, so next quarter will be the end for him. Either he will be working full time and paying rent or he will be working or not working somewhere else and paying rent or not paying rent somewhere else. It is hard. He is not emotionally mature and is easily lead astray. But it is not in his best interest to remain here, getting a free ride so he can play.
Another eighteen year old also is not doing so well in school, but he is following the rules and trying in school. There is no talk of him moving on. We actually don’t think he will ever be independent so expect to direct him to a job and have him pay rent as well.
In a couple of months, if things remain on this track, you might expect to hear that one of the eighteens has moved out. We will see. It is hard. Very hard. Harder on the parents than on the child. Though it shouldn’t be.
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Kim – There may be similarities, but she is not your mother. Don’t let the enemy of our souls keep you captive to that fear. You belong to Jesus, & He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Your God will fight for you & for your daughter. “Peace, be still.”
As for food, does BG realize that for many (if not most) working people can’t afford to buy their food out every day? Lee & Emily pack food to take for the day (I prepare Lee’s for him), & a thermos of coffee (for Lee) or tea (for Emily), along with water bottles. (Not the plastic kind you buy, but these are steel, & we fill them up at home.)
She will save a lot of money by making & taking her own meals or snacks.
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And it would help teach her more responsibility.
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Prayers for all. I’m actually surprised BG hasn’t found a way to move out already, but it is expensive, obviously. Good to hear the hoped-for “rest of the story” for these wayward teens from Nancyjill, michelle, etc. Perspective. But that’s hard to really have when you’re in the thick of a mess like that & don’t yet know where it will all lead, I know.
Pray for Carol, she went out to the 99-cent store yesterday after getting her check cashed and took a fall when trying to get her walker up over a curb where there was no ramp. She dislocated her shoulder and wound up at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital (again) until around midnight. They knocked her out & got her shoulder back in place, took X-rays and a CAT scan of her head, which she says came back OK.
That’s the 2nd time she’s fallen in the past couple months. I am getting worried that her health and ability to be independent is taking a step down.
And she said they discharged her without any paperwork or followup instructions, she still has no doctor in Hollywood — I think it would be good if she could go back to her other residence, even if it means rooming with the boyfriend, but she is still paying off some back rent owed at Hollywood and won’t be clear of that until February. (Somehow she went in there after the first of the month last summer and had no money so right off the bat she owed extra for those several weeks until. They are taking those back-payments out a little at a time each month.
I may try to reach the brother again, it would be easier for family to deal with these folks in making plans for her. Due to Hippa, they’re just not very receptive to me when I call (even though my name is down as her local contact). But maybe her brother would be willing to get her paid up and then see if she can be transferred back to Downey maybe at the first of the year.
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I know I am feeling sad about Art, but I am also saddened to know about all the major problems so many are facing. God, please help us all in these days of trials and heartaches over loved ones.♡
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My SIL flunks some of those students. He tries to help them, but will not pass anyone who does not at least DO something. It is very frustrating to him to have parents show up after the fact, who still try to get him to pass their student. He refuses to continue the farce, which is what it is. It is unhelpful and damaging to continue to allow these young people to live in a fantasy world. He does not teach math or English or any other difficult subject. There is absolutely no excuse for his students to not pass. You can lead a horse to water…
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The most difficult thing is knowing there is always someone out there to exploit these foolish young people. My heart goes out to you, Kim.
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Coupled with the fact that we all think we know EVERYTHING at 18, right? 🙄
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That is our biggest concern with our eighteen year old boy. Though I think he and nineteen year old daughter are trying to rekindle their romance. We told them they could do that when they were eighteen as they are not bio sibs. Complicated.
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We are trying to work very closely with the school. Reminding them that the boys need the grades that reflect their work or lack thereof, they should not get fudged grades so they can participate in sports. I recently told fourteen year old that we were upping the ante on him. He will be expected to maintain something like a 3.3 in future. Right now, we said he had to have a 3.0 to play and no F’s. He lets it slide until just before the game and raises it to 3.1 so he can play. That does not actually meet what we are looking for so we will have to be more clear. Other boy is just using school as an excuse to not work. But, like I said, emotionally, he is not eighteen.
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Wow! So much to pray for! I am praying for each of your needs.
Hard as it is, sometimes you just have to let your children eat pig slop. Remember that the prodigal’s father never went to bail him out. He waited for God to change his heart.
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and more: Another ‘active shooter’ event unfolding northeast of LA:
What we know about the San Bernardino shooting
• San Bernardino officials are at an Active Shooter situation at the Inland Regional Center on Waterman Ave.
• A San Bernardino Police sergeant said there may have been as many as three shooters.
• Police have said 15-20 people are victims but have not reported a death toll.
• Agents from the Los Angeles bureau of the ATF have been dispatched to the scene.
• The Inland Regional Center is a health and community center for people with developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Scary, Donna. Praying for all those involved.
Most of these things have been lone gunmen situations. I wonder what is going on with these three gunmen. Terrorists? Columbine-type situation?
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Very little still known, suspects still at large, no IDs, no motive known, no descriptions — authorities appear to be at a loss … 😦
But reporting (numbers may change) that 14 were killed, 14 injured and taken to hospitals.
“They came prepared” — police chief at recent news conference.
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Horrible, those shootings. 😦
I agree with RKessler — so much to pray for on this thread! Many wise words shared here, too.
Daughter decided not to drive back today. She did drive herself to an Urgent Care in our area. She figured she just has a virus and they wouldn’t be able to do anything, and she was right, but she got a doctor’s note saying she was too ill to work, which she can turn in to her supervisor at the place she was to work today. Then she won’t get “points” against her. (That workplace adds 3 points to an employee’s record — 10 points in three months gets you fired — for calling in sick and not providing proof, in the form of a doctor’s note. Or if they don’t want to go to a doctor, they have to drive to work and prove they’re sick and be given permission to leave.)
Fortunately, her full-time workplace (at the animal hospital) doesn’t require proof of illness, but at her part-time place, everyone pays the price for the liars/lazy ones.
Such is life sometimes.
Thanks for praying, all.
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Finally some information on Andrea. She had texted her husband saying she was on her way and would meet him at work. She didn’t arrive and he was frantically calling her cell which was eventually answered by a nurse at the hospital. She had been hit (either while walking or biking) and someone, thankfully, had called an ambulance.
She had surgery on her femur this morning and also has broken ribs.
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So glad Andrea was not hurt worse. When I was at Georgia Southern I dated a guy who had been engaged but one evening around dusk, his fiancee got hit and killed while riding her bke. People on foot or bike are so vulnerable to being hit. It causes so much tragedy.
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Art seems to be feeling better this evening. Thank you for praying.♡
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Kare, when I saw the word femur, I flinched a little. I hope all goes well. My father had his femur broken in a car accident, and he too had to wait overnight to be operated on. By morning, he was unconscious. The yellow marrow of the femur shaft is fat, and some had migrated into his bloodstream (it was a compound fracture) to become emboli which blocked circulation in his lungs and brain. It was a miracle that he recovered with few ill effects.
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